Новости за 27.06.2019

England sent out a warning to their rivals as they stormed into the women’s World Cup semi-finals with an impressive 3-0 victory against Norway on Thursday. Ellen White scored her fifth goal of the tournament in between Jill Scott’s opener and a Lucy Bronze screamer from the edge of the...

THE mayor of Paphos signed two contracts aimed at the further improvement of Paphos at the town hall on Thursday, according to the municipality. Phedonas Phedonos signed an agreement for the construction of a new road in Kato Paphos and work will get underway soon. A new section of Sotiraki...

Twitter Inc said on Thursday it would identify and deemphasise tweets that broke its rules but came from important sources, such as politicians, in order to strike a balance between free expression and accountability. The new feature comes as Twitter has been under scrutiny over political bias over the tweets...

Russian President Vladimir Putin said in an interview published on Thursday that liberal values were obsolete because they had been rejected by the majority of the people in Western nations. Putin told the Financial Times newspaper that German Chancellor Angela Merkel had made a cardinal mistake by adopting a liberal...

IN A two-hour meeting on Thursday, Health Minister Constantinos Ioannou, along with the state health services (Okypy) and A&E department directors discussed solutions to the understaffing and scheduling problems being faced by public hospital A&Es. Directors of A&E departments were presented with possible solutions and a timeline for the enhancement...

Two-time champions India stood on the cusp of securing a spot in the Cricket World Cup semi-finals after they stretched their unbeaten run in the tournament with a clinical 125-run victory against West Indies that eliminated the Caribbeans on Thursday. Opting to bat first, India’s middle order did not exactly...

President Nicos Anastasiades and lawmakers on Thursday discussed the economy with prominent foreign investors, and possible measures for its improvement, during a round-table discussion at the presidential palace. Such a dialogue would from now on be institutionalised, he said. Addressing participants, Anastasiades said: “We expect to hear and evaluate your...

At least 39 artisanal miners were killed on Thursday when part of a copper and cobalt mine owned byGlencore collapsed in southeast Congo, the provincial governor said. The accident occurred in the KOV open-pit mine at the Kamoto Copper Company (KCC) concession, in which Glencore subsidiary Katanga Mining owns a 75% stake, said...

Through his 16 years in power, Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan has been able to rely on the pious electorate of Istanbul’s Eyup district, where for centuries Ottoman sultans received their ceremonial sword after ascending to the throne. But on Sunday, it turned its back on his Islamist-rooted AK Party (AKP)...

Famagusta Mayor Alexis Galanos has called for mass participation in the event organised by his municipality outside the presidential palace on Friday. Galanos told a news conference that the announcement made by the Turkish Cypriot ‘deputy prime minister and foreign minister’ Kudret Ozersay to open the fenced-off city of Varosha...

Schemes to assist borrowers who will not be able to benefit from a current debt relief scheme for vulnerable homeowners will be decided after the viability of all the applications is assessed, Finance Minister Harris Georgiades said on Thursday. He said he was expecting around 15,000 to apply. Speaking in...

en Democrats took the stage in the first Democratic debate of the 2020 U.S. election campaign on Wednesday night, each trying to introduce themselves to millions of voters who will decide whether they should be president. Some had good nights. Others struggled to stay afloat. BIDEN Former Vice President Joe...

Two people were shot and wounded outside a mosque in Brest, western France, on Thursday, police said. Brest Prosecutor Jean-Philippe Recappe said the gunman opened fire as people left the mosque in the city’s Pontanezen neigbourhood. It was not immediately clear whether the shooting was religiously motivated, a settling of...

President Nicos Anastasiades has asked UN Secretary-General Antonio for his support to restore the conditions that could lead to a resumption of negotiations, Government Spokesman Prodromos Prodromou said on Thursday. According to Prodromou, Anastasiades sent Guterres a letter earlier in the month briefing him on Turkey’s violations in Cyprus’ exclusive...

Pro-European Union lawmakers will seek next week to block a new prime minister from taking Britain out of the European Union without a deal and against the will of parliament by trying to cut off some of the government’s funding. Former Conservative Attorney General Dominic Grieve and former Labour Foreign...

Seven young artists joined forces (and skills) to produce the exhibition titled ‘Emotions in Colour’, which opened on June 26 in Nicosia. Housed in the Cultural Centre of Pallouriotissa’s Old Market, the pieces being exhibited are a diverse selection including paintings, digital art and photography. Organised by ARTSTALKER, the exhibition...

More work stoppages will follow if problems are not solved, urban taxi drivers warned following a four-hour work strike on Thursday. They are contemplating a 24-hour or even a three-day strike during the holiday period of August 15. Thursday’s strike took place from 6am until 10am. Head of the Limassol...

Tottenham supporters will be getting excited as the club prepare to announce two potential new signings in the coming days. Last season’s Champions League finalists are expected to complete a deal for Leeds winger Jack Clarke while Lyon midfielder Tanguy Ndombele has also been strongly linked with a move to...

Turkish Cypriot leader Mustafa Akinci on Thursday said he was the one in charge of taking decisions on issues such as the closed-off town of Varosha in Famagusta instead of just being informed after the fact. After being briefed by ‘prime minister’ Ersin Tatar and ‘foreign minister’ Kudret Ozersay on...

A federal judge in New York rejected Sotheby’s bid to dismiss a $380 million lawsuit where Russian billionaire Dmitry Rybolovlev accused the auction house of helping his longtime art dealer’s scheme to overcharge him on dozens of masterworks. U.S. District Judge Jesse Furman said Sotheby’s failed to establish that the case did...

The worst of the impact on the French economy of the yellow-vest protests, which rocked city centres across France last winter, is yet to come, a report said, predicting a wave of bankruptcies among small businesses in the second half of the year. The initial impact of the yellow-vest protests,...

Entering into the final stage of the Vasiliko fuel installations Stable dividend policy At the 19th Annual General Meeting of the shareholders of Petrolina (Holdings) Public Ltd, held on Wednesday, June 26, 2019, a profit before tax of €4,9m was announced, compared to €4,8m in the previous year, whereas after-tax...

Eliminating fossil fuels from the U.S. power sector, a key goal of the “Green New Deal” backed by many Democratic presidential candidates, would cost $4.7 trillion and pose massive economic and social challenges, according to a report released on Thursday by energy research firm Wood Mackenzie. That would amount to...

The Committee on Missing Persons (CMP) on Thursday announced that human remains belonging to one person were unearthed in a well in Lapithos. According to an announcement, a bi-communal excavation team of the CMP recovered remains of one person on Wednesday. “This exhumation took place in a deep well using...

Perhaps, in years to come, tennis fans will yearn for the days of “characters like Nick Kyrgios”, just as they do for John McEnroe, the one-time Superbrat everyone loved to hate who is now embraced as a lovable rogue from the golden age. Maybe the Australian will publish an autobiography...